Menantu Pahlawan Negara by Sarjana

Chapter 151

Leslie’s gaze sharpened. He wondered if his mother had told Aurelia about his true identity.

“What else could I be?” he asked coldly.

Aurelia didn’t sense anything odd. After all, Leslie had always been cold and distant.

“Maybe a businessman. You’re just as cunning as one,” Aurelia replied with an awkward laugh. “A cunning businessman, huh?”

Leslie put down his cup and wiped his hands.

Aurelia chuckled but eventually quieted down, realizing that it had been a bad joke. “Sorry.”

“If I’m a cunning businessman, what does that make you? A cunning businessman’s wife?” he asked.

Silence fell over them instantly. They were both rendered speechless as their conversation suddenly shifted to the topic of “wife”.

Aurelia was unsure of how to react to this.

Leslie wiped his mouth and changed the subject. “I’m done eating. It’s settled then. You don’t have to worry about anything. Just be yourself on Friday.”

Aurelia nodded. “Thank you. Sorry for troubling you.”

up. Aurelia followed suit and went to pay

restaurant, the sun

was too tall, and she had to stand on tiptoes even though she

took a couple of steps before his head bumped into the top of the umbrella. He sighed and

“I’ll hold it.”

Aurelia said, looking up at him

her smile, Leslie’s grip around the

Aurelia seemed to radiate a soft glow. Her lustrous black hair,

he was staring at

composed himself and

some distance between them, when Aurelia looked at their shadows on the ground, she noticed that the umbrella

by this detail. Then, she was reminded of the three years

by the time they reached the subway, her shoulder

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about getting

pick you up. I’m doing this because I love you so much. You should treat me better

she had

a person would tend to magnify the other person’s virtues and

in the heavy rain was an act of love. But she had ignored the fact

over as she

looked in the direction the smell was coming from, just to see people queuing up to buy the